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Biography & Autobiography Political

Staying Human Through the Holocaust

by (author) Teréz Mózes

edited and translated by Maureen Wise, Anna Hercz & Oren Hercz

translated by Audrey Demarcisco

Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2005
Category
Political
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552381397
    Publish Date
    Apr 2005
    List Price
    $24.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552384565
    Publish Date
    Apr 2005
    List Price
    $24.95

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Description

Teréz Mózes was born in Romania in 1919 to a stable and loving family. Her idyllic life would eventually be shattered by the upheavals of the Second World War as the Nazis systematically undertook the destruction of the Jewish race.

Starting with the insidious and menacing anti-Jewish laws and continuing with resettlement into cramped ghettos and finally deportation to the death camps, Teréz and her sister Erzsi would be thrust into a harrowing journey that would forever alter the course of their lives. In June 1944, Teréz and Erzsi were sent to the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, where they would fight for their survival in a traumatic ordeal of unimaginable horror. Liberation in February 1945 should have meant the end of their nightmare, yet their homecoming would be delayed by widespread confusion as the Russians swept through Eastern Europe crushing the Nazi regime. After internment in numerous Russian camps and an uncertain future, Teréz and Ezri finally returned to their shattered hometown of Oradea in August 1945.

Staying Human Through the Holocaust, originally titled Beverzett kotáblak ("Shattered Tablets"), was published in Hungarian in 1993 and in Romanian in 1995. Told in a direct and riveting style that will haunt the reader long after the story is over, this memoir is a glimpse of the darkest and most uplifting aspects of our humanity from both an individual and historical point of view.

About the authors

Following the war, Teréz Mózes' long and distinguished career included journalism, teaching, directing a cultural institution, and heading the ethnography section of the regional Museum of Oradea, Romania.

Teréz Mózes' profile page

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Anna Hercz's profile page

Oren Hercz's profile page

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Awards

  • Short-listed, Alberta Book Awards, Book Design (Book Publishers Association of Alberta)